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1 Тогда все общество подняло вопль, и плакалъ народъ въ ту ночь.

2 И стали роптать на Моисея и Аарона всј сыны Израилевы, и все общество сказало имъ: о если бы мы умерли въ землј Египетской, или умерли бы въ пустынј сей!

3 И для чего Господь ведетъ насъ въ землю сію, чтобы мы пали отъ меча? Жены наши и дјти наши достанутся въ добычу врагамъ. Не лучше ли намъ возвратиться въ Египетъ?

4 И сказали другъ другу: поставимъ надъ собою начальника, и возвратимся въ Египетъ.

5 Моисей и Ааронъ пали на лица свои предъ всјмъ собраніемъ общества сыновъ Израилевыхъ.

6 И Іисусъ, сынъ Навинъ, и Халевъ, сынъ Іефонніинъ, изъ обозрјвавшихъ землю, разодрали одежды свои,

7 и сказали всему обществу сыновъ Израилевыхъ: земля, которую мы проходили для обозрјнія, есть земля самая лучшая.

8 Если любитъ насъ Господь, то введетъ насъ въ землю сію и дастъ вамъ сію землю, въ которой течетъ молоко и медъ.

9 Только противъ Господа не возставайте, и не бойтесь народа земли сей: поелику онъ достанется намъ на съјденіе, защиты у нихъ не стало; а съ нами Господь, не бойтесь ихъ.

10 Все общество положило побить ихъ камнами; но слава Господня явилась въ скиніи собранія всјмъ сынамъ Израилевымъ.

11 И сказалъ Господь Моисею: доколј будетъ пренебрегать Меня народъ сей, и доколј не будетъ Мнј вјрить при всјхъ тјхъ знаменіяхь, которыя дјлалъ Я среди его?

12 Итакъ поражу его язвою и истреблю его, и произведу отъ тебя народъ, который больше и сильнје его.

13 Но Моисей сказалъ Господу: Египтяне слышали, что Ты силою Твоею вывелъ народъ сей изъ среды ихъ,

14 и сказали жителямъ земли сей; они также слышали, что Ты Господь находишься среди народа сего, и что Ты Господь даешь видјть Себя лицемъ къ лицу, и облако Твое стоитъ надъ ними, и Ты идешь предъ ними днемъ въ столпј облачномъ, а ночью въ столпј огненномъ;

15 если же Ты истребишь народъ сей, какъ одного человјка: то народы, которые слышали славу Твою, скажутъ:

16 Господь, не имјя силъ ввести народъ сей въ землю, которую Онъ съ клятвою објщалъ ему, погубилъ его въ пустынј.

17 Итакъ да возвеличится сила Господня, какъ Ты говорилъ, и сказалъ:

18 Господь медленъ на гнјвъ, и великъ въ милости, прощаетъ беззаконія и преступленія, но виновнаго не оставляетъ безъ наказанія, наказываетъ беззаконіе отцевъ въ сынахъ до третьяго и четвертаго рода.

19 Прости грјхъ народу сему по великой милости твоей, такъ какъ Ты прощалъ народъ сей отъ Египта даже доселј.

20 И сказалъ Господь: прощаю по слову твоему.

21 Но живъ Я, и славы Господней полна вся земля:

22 всј, которые видјли славу Мою и знаменія Мои, сдјланныя Мною въ Египтј и въ пустынј, и искушали меня уже десять разъ и не слушали гласа Моего,

23 не увидятъ земли, которую Я съ клятвою објщалъ отцамъ ихъ: всј пренебрегшіе Меня не увидятъ ея.

24 Но раба Моего Халева за то, что въ немъ былъ иной духъ, и онъ совершенно повиновался мнј, введу въ землю, въ которую онъ ходилъ, и сјмя его получитъ ее въ наслјдство.

25 Но поелику Амаликитяне и Хананеи живутъ на равнинј, то завтра возвратитесь и идите въ пустыню, къ Чермному морю.

26 И говорилъ Господь Моисею и Аарону, и сказалъ:

27 доколј буйному сему обществу роптать на Меня? Ропотъ сыновъ Израилевыхъ, которымъ они ропщутъ на Меня, Я слышу.

28 Скажи имъ: живъ Я, говоритъ Господь; что говорили вы въ слухъ Мнј, то и сдјлаю вамъ.

29 Въ пустынј сей падутъ тјла ваши, всј вошедшіе у васъ въ перепись, сколько васъ числомъ, отъ двадцати лјтъ и выше, которые роптали на Меня.

30 Вы не войдете въ землю, на которой Я, подъемля руку Мою, клялся поселить васъ, кромј Халева, сына Іефонніина, и Іисуса, сына Навина.

31 Дјтей вашихъ, о которыхъ вы говорили, что они достанутся въ добычу врагамъ, Я введу туда и они узнаютъ землю, которую вы презрјлн.

32 А ваши трупы падуть въ пустынј сей.

33 Впрочемъ сыны ваши будутъ пастушескую жизнь вести въ пустынј сорокъ лјтъ, и будутъ нести наказаніе за блудодјйство ваше, пока не падутъ всј тјла ваши въ пустынј.

34 По числу сорока дней, въ которые вы обозрјвали землю, вы понесете наказаніе за грјхи ваши сорокъ лјтъ, годъ за день, дабы вы познали, что значитъ быть оставленнымъ Мною.

35 Я Господь говорю, и такъ поступлю со всјмъ буйнымъ симъ обществомъ, возставшимъ противъ Меня: въ пустынј сей всј падутъ и перемрутъ въ ней.

36 А тј, которыхъ посылалъ Моисей для обозрјнія земли, и которые возвратившись, возмутили противъ него все сіе общество, распуская худую молву о землј:

37 сіи, распустившіе худую молву о землј, умерли, бывъ поражены предъ Господомъ.

38 Только Іисусъ, сынъ Навинъ, и Халевъ, сынъ Іефонніинъ, остались живы изъ тјхъ мужей, которые ходили обозрјвать землю.

39 Когда Моисей сказалъ слова сіи предъ всјми сынами Израилевыми, тогда горько заплакалъ народъ.

40 Вставъ рано поутру, пошли на вершину горы, говоря: вотъ, мы пойдемъ на то мјсто, о которомъ сказалъ Господь, поелику мы согрјшили.

41 Но Моисей сказалъ: для чего вы преступаете повелјніе Господне? Это будетъ безуспјшно. [ (Numbers 15:42) Не ходите; ибо нјтъ среди васъ Господа, чтобы не поразили васъ враги ваши. ] [ (Numbers 15:43) Ибо Амаликитяне и Хананеи тамъ предъ вами, и вы падете отъ меча, потому что вы отступили отъ Господа и не будетъ съ вами Господа. ] [ (Numbers 15:44) Но они не смотря на сіе взошли на вершину горы; ковчегъ же завјта Господня и Моисей не выходили изъ стана. ] [ (Numbers 15:45) Тогда Амаликитяне и Хананеи, живущіе на горј той, сошли, били ихъ и гнали ихъ до Хормы. ]

   

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Arcana Coelestia # 922

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922. 'He took from every clean beast, and from every clean bird' means goods that stem from charity, and the truths of faith. This has been shown already; 'beast' means goods that stem from charity, 45, 46, 142, 143, 246, 'bird' the truths of faith, 40, 776. Burnt offerings were made from cattle, from lambs and goats, and from turtle doves and young pigeons, Leviticus 1:2-17; Numbers 15:2-15; 28:1-end. These were clean beasts, each one of them meaning some particular heavenly quality. And because they meant these things in the Ancient Church, and in subsequent Churches represented them, it is clear that burnt offerings and sacrifices were nothing else than representatives that go with internal worship, and that when they had been divorced from internal worship they became idolatrous. This any mentally normal person can see, for what is an altar but merely something made of stone? And what is a burnt offering and a sacrifice but the slaughtering of an animal? For worship to be Divine it has to represent some heavenly quality which the worshippers know and acknowledge and from which they worship the One they are representing.

[2] Nobody except the person who does not wish to understand anything at all about the Lord can be ignorant of the fact that these things were representatives of the Lord. It is the internal things, namely charity and faith deriving from charity, through which the One who is being represented has to be seen, acknowledged, and believed, as is quite clear in the Prophets, for example in Jeremiah,

Thus said Jehovah Zebaoth, the God of Israel, Add your burnt offerings on to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. I did not speak with your fathers and I did not command them on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt on the matters of burnt offering and sacrifice. But this matter I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God. Jeremiah 7:21-23.

Hearing or obeying His voice is obeying the law, the whole of which focuses on the one command that men should love God above everything else and their neighbour as themselves, for on these depend the Law and the Prophets, Matthew 22:37-40; 7:12. In David,

O Jehovah, sacrifice and offering You have not desired; burnt offering and sin-sacrifice You host not sought. I have delighted to do Your will, O my God, and Your law is within my heart. 1 Psalms 40:6, 8.

[3] In Samuel, who said to Saul,

Has Jehovah as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to hearken than the fat of rams. 1 Samuel 15:22.

What obeying His voice involves is apparent in Micah,

Shall I come before Jehovah with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, with tens of thousands of rivers of oil? He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does Jehovah require of you but to carry out judgement and the love of mercy, and to humble yourself by walking with your God. Micah 6:6-8.

These are the things that burnt offerings and sacrifices of clean beasts and birds mean. In Amos,

Though you offer Me your burnt offerings and gifts, I will not accept them, and the peace offering of your fatted ones I will not look upon. Let judgement flow like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream. Amos 5:22, 24.

'Judgement' means truth, and 'righteousness' good. Both stem from charity and are the burnt offerings and sacrifices of the internal man. In Hosea,

I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Hosea 6:6.

From all these quotations the nature of sacrifices and burnt offerings when charity and faith are not present is clear. It is also clear from them that because 'clean beasts and clean birds' meant the goods that stem from charity and faith they also represented them.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, in the midst of my viscera

  
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Arcana Coelestia # 46

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46. That 'beasts' means affections residing with man - evil affections in evil men and good affections in good men - becomes clear from many examples in the Word, as in Ezekiel,

Behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, so that you will be tilled and sown; and I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they will be multiplied and be fruitful, and I will resettle you 1 to be as in your ancient times. Ezekiel 36:9-11.

This refers to regeneration. In Joel,

Fear not, you beasts of My field, for the dwelling-places of the wilderness have been made green. Joel 2:22.

In David,

I was stupid, a beast 2 was I with God. Psalms 73:12.

In Jeremiah,

Behold, the days are coming when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast, and I will watch over them to build and to plant. Jeremiah 31:27-28.

This refers to regeneration.

[2] 'Wild animals' (fera) has a similar meaning, as in Hosea,

I will make for them a covenant on that day, with the wild animals of the field, and with the birds of the air, 3 and with the creeping things of the earth. Hosea 2:18.

In Job,

You will not fear the wild animals of the earth, for your covenant will be with the stones of the field, and the wild beasts of the field will be at peace with you. Job 5:22-23.

In Ezekiel,

I will make with them 4 a covenant of peace, and I will banish the evil wild animal from the land, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness. Ezekiel 34:25.

In Isaiah,

The wild animals of the field will honour me, for I have given water in the desert. Isaiah 43:20.

In Ezekiel,

In its branches all the birds of the air 3 made their nests and under its branches every wild animal of the field gave birth, and in its shadow dwelt all great nations. Ezekiel 31:6.

This refers to Assyria, which means the spiritual man and is compared to the Garden of Eden. In David,

Praise Jehovah, all his angels, praise Him from the earth, sea monsters, fruit trees, wild animals, and all beasts, creeping things, and flying birds! Psalms 148:2-4, 7, 9-10.

Here the list is precisely the same - sea monsters, fruit trees, wild animals, beasts, creeping things, and birds. Unless they all mean things that are alive in human beings, they cannot possibly be referred to as praising Jehovah.

[3] A careful distinction is made in the Prophets between beasts and wild animals of the earth, and between beasts and wild animals of the field. The practice of calling goods 'beasts' extends to calling people in heaven who are nearest to the Lord 'living creatures', both in Ezekiel and in John,

All the angels stood around the throne, and the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshipped God. 5 Revelation 7:11; 19:4.

The expression 'creatures' is also used of people who are to have the gospel preached to them because they are to be created anew, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Mark 16:15.

Poznámky pod čarou:

1. literally, I will cause you to inhabit

2. literally, beasts

3. literally, bird of the heavens (or the skies)

4. The Latin means with you; but the Hebrew means with them which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

5. The Latin means the Lamb; but the Greek means God which Swedenborg has in other places where he quotes this verse.

  
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